House on hill is a young family owned company that has recently restored a double room and an apartment downstairs at their home. The house has gradually been restored and towers over Höfn. The hill is named “Fiskhóll” (Fishhill). In the old days fish was dried here at Fiskhóll and that is the reason for the name of the hill. The owners also run a tech company which provides services for computer information systems in the municipality of Höfn.

Höfn (pronounced something like “herpn”, also known as Höfn í Hornafirði, is a town in East Iceland, right on the south-eastern corner of the country. Höfn sits by the lagoon (or fjord) Hornafjörður which is also the name of the large municipality of which the town is the centre and covers the entire area of the county Austur-Skaftafellssýsla. This guide covers both the town itself and the surrounding municipality, excluding the westernmost part which forms one of the main gateways to Vatnajökull National Park. For tourism purposes, the area calls itself the Vatnajökull Region, and there is much truth in this: Nowhere else is quite as dominated by Europe’s largest glacier, nowhere else have people learned to live in such close quarters with the huge sheet of ice.